Semester 1

Highlights

  • CS50
  • I was an RA for Prof. Wen-Chi Liao (NUS) in the Fall
  • Completed subjects worth 71 units. My favourite subject was Introduction to Computer Science (CS50) from Harvard. I first attempted this subject online in 2014. It was a dream come true to finish it.

Pictures!

Birthday celebration for Natasha 🙂

Thanksgiving Trip to Provincetown for two nights with friends from the PhD/Masters program. Was super fun minus some car troubles 🚗 Great to get out of the city~ Thank you Hannah for organising!

omg another cool thing that happened around mid-semester was seeing David Rubenstein (co-founder of the The Carlyle Group) in real life 😱🤯 SO SO COOL!!! At one point he was like a table away from me 🤗

My Replay’23: NewJeans and Limi are a no brainer. The other three are kinda surprises. Eric Chou maybe in my vain effort to memorise his chinese lyrics before his concert. It doesn’t seem like a very sophisticated list to me.

Bowling for Chenhao (w cohort)! I surprisingly came 2nd in both rounds 🥳

A couple weeks ago in my section (a.k.a. tutorial) we had an 18 question SQL quiz and guess who came first (vs a room of Harvards top 18yo CS students!!!!!! 😂)???

from maybe like September! Boston Celtics game w my friend Jasmine (my 2nd blog reader(!)—who will be very excited to see herself mentioned!) Was super fun! THANK YOU RBA friends for the farewell gift (especially Cameron!!) ⛹🏻

FINAL CS50 Lecture at Harvard! Photo with the prof and Sophia, my lovely GSD (Harvard Graduate School of Design) study buddy! 😎 Now to finish (and start) the final project.

Earlier this semester I was inadvertently added to the MIT Graduate Student Union Constitutional Committee. My tiny, *tiny* contribution is highlighted above (the inserting of the phrase “workplace democracy” in the constitutions preamble)!!!! I’ve left my indelible mark on MIT hehe 😆

Evett, an old colleague from my IBM St Leonards, Sydney days dropped by during a work trip. She really hated MIT coffee ☕️

DUSP PhD End-of-semester dinner! 🍽️

Farewell hotpot with Prof. Siqi (my advisor) and Prof. Wen-Chi who is returning to NUS after a year visiting MIT! I have been RAing for Wen-Chi this semester and have learnt a lot from him!